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Allison Krupp

Allison Krupp is an American novelist, screenwriter, and travel writer, scouring the city for earnest conversations with other Berlin weirdos. Send her your music, writing, films, and tales of love, loss, and revenge: allikrupp7@gmail.com

Hobtime for Instant Friends and a Fulfilling Social Life In Berlin

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Let me ask you this: Berlin may love you, but does anyone else? After all: You moved to Berlin without much, stripping off money, worries, and—let’s face it—friends, on your quest to be something “more.” But sitting tight-lipped at your corner candlelit bar and Whatsapping your friends back home isn’t doing you any favors. You need to build … Read more Hobtime for Instant Friends and a Fulfilling Social Life In Berlin

‘The Drummer’ Hitchhikes the World with Just a Drum Set and a Dream

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You read that title right. It’s the stuff of dreams for us restless, wannabe musicians (we could all start a successful band if we really tried, right?). And a man known now only as “The Drummer,” our modern-day hero, took the plunge in June, hitchhiking or jet-setting or boating through Germany, and then the rest of the … Read more ‘The Drummer’ Hitchhikes the World with Just a Drum Set and a Dream

“To Be Gay is to Be Political.” Scott Grabell’s Homopropaganda is All about Empowerment

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Photography as performance—and as protest, is the heartbeat of LOVEGAYPEOPLE, a mission forged by Berlin’s own Scott Grabell, or Scotty the Blue Bunny’s, that links the ‘40s and the first-wave AIDS of the ‘80s to modern photographs of strong, dynamic gay people. These performances—found in each living, breathing photograph, taken by Scotty himself—offer a “flood of politically obvious … Read more “To Be Gay is to Be Political.” Scott Grabell’s Homopropaganda is All about Empowerment

Primavera Sound 2016, as Rated and Stereotyped with our Berlin-Addled Brains

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If you’ve been paying attention (you haven’t), you probably caught that your bright-eyed Berlin Loves You writers/editors waddled all the way to Spain for Primavera Sound 2016. Long sun-drenched days and even longer, addled nights helped us create this, the first of our reviews about Primavera Sound. Let’s say, dear readers, that the great Primavera … Read more Primavera Sound 2016, as Rated and Stereotyped with our Berlin-Addled Brains

Lima Lima is Damn Good Italian Food with Napoli Seaside Charm

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That feeling you get near the sea. Quiet. Content. Perhaps a bit sun-tired—and accepting it. That’s the ease you feel upon entering Lima Lima—a new Charlottenburg restaurant burning with memories of the Mediterranean, and innovative old recipes with quality ingredients. Lima Lima’s Daniela Schaube and Rosario De Paola are relatively new Berliners, hailing from Naples, … Read more Lima Lima is Damn Good Italian Food with Napoli Seaside Charm

Let’s Yalla Travel App is here so you can quit this BS and go on a spontaneous trip tomorrow

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Let’s Yalla did something rather incredible: they bottled that mad and chaotic Berlin energy, which we all felt rattling in our hearts and lungs in the weeks before moving here–that feeling we all crave. We can grasp it once again. Because even here, you find yourself nibbling that 4 a.m. kebab at 11:30… folding laundry… catching … Read more Let’s Yalla Travel App is here so you can quit this BS and go on a spontaneous trip tomorrow

Neukölln’s Fellfisch Café & Schmuck has the finer things in life

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During mid-afternoon on a sunny day, warm light streams through the glass windows of Emser Straße’s Fellfisch Café. Purple and aching-yellow flowers decorate each wooden table, and a Bob Dylan-Laura Marling-folk soundtrack breathes from the corner speaker. The occasional antique chair; the rodent-bone collection, tapped in a frame against the eggshell blue wall; the cookies … Read more Neukölln’s Fellfisch Café & Schmuck has the finer things in life

Raven’s Boylesque Is Sexy And Horrific, And Dammit, We Need It

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The Dark Prince of Burlesque, Raven, is the Hyde to normality’s Jekyll; that edgy personality that morphs, horrifically, when the clock-strikes, shelling off convention like snakeskin. A dark, made-of-nightmare personality spikes, slicing that fine line between sexuality and terror—making steady eye contact with this unrivaled concentration, this knowledge that yes: this far outside the box, … Read more Raven’s Boylesque Is Sexy And Horrific, And Dammit, We Need It

Questions of Stone with ‘Mineralia’ Exhibit @ Holz Kohlen Koks

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Art, is, perhaps, meant to flip things upside down—to illustrate new meaning for elements previously thought unimportant, trivialities we literally or metaphorically tromp over without notice. Yes. In this case, I’m talking about pavement—something, until now, I assumed was a backdrop for only childhood skinned knees and chalk drawings and the occasional pick-up basketball game. … Read more Questions of Stone with ‘Mineralia’ Exhibit @ Holz Kohlen Koks

Berlin Sewing Salon: Learn to Nip-And-Tuck your way to better fashion

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Berlin is reinvention; it’s stitching and patching your life together into something else—something uniquely you. And, wandering the hazy Berlin streets this summer, you’ll want to present this creativity—based first and foremost in your fashion—to the world. And you’re not going to do that going to H&M and Zara. Professional seamstress and costume designer Mariya … Read more Berlin Sewing Salon: Learn to Nip-And-Tuck your way to better fashion

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